| Director: | T. C. Christensen |
| Studio: | Remember Films |
| Distributor: | Susan Tuckett Media |
| Runtime: | 97 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | under $1 million |
| Gross: | $2,610,405[1] [2] |
Escape from Germany is a 2024 American historical drama film written and directed by T. C. Christensen.
Escape from Germany was released in the United States on 11 April 2024.[1]
In August 1939, 85 American Mormon missionaries get stranded inside Nazi Germany on the eve of outbreak of WWII and must escape to neighboring countries while Hitler’s army is closing German borders.
According to the film's closing credits and as stated in the magazine LDS Living, most of the extras in Escape from Germany were actual descendants of the real-life escaping missionaries.[3]
With the film's budget being under $1 million, some of the funding needed for its making came from a private investor in Dallas who was also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[3]
Principal photography took place in Utah and Budapest.[3]
The film was released in select cinemas in the United States on 11 April 2024 by Susan Tuckett Media.[1]
Escape from Germany grossed $168,100 during its opening weekend in the United States.[1], it made the total of $2.6 million.[2]
Rotten Tomatoes' Popcornmeter (audience score) for the film was 91.[4]
Christie Cronan wrote in her positive review for Common Sense Media: "While Escape from Germany could easily be labeled as propaganda for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with its heavy-handed faith-based dialogue and missionary characters, it's also a WWII film without brutal war violence."[5]
Sean P. Means of The Movie Cricket criticised the film: "Christensen’s habit of turning every plot turn into a Sunday school lesson is on display here — with every twist of fate or fortunate coincidence taken as a sign of God’s hand. Miracles are good for sermons, but they make for unsubtle screenwriting."[6]